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Daniel arap Moi and the politics of HIV and AIDS in Kenya, 1983–2002
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Samwel Ong'wen Okuro --- Department of History, KenyaThe contrasting outcomes to HIV/AIDS prevention and mitigation processes in sub-Saharan Africa have not been adequately investigated or explained. Specifically, few scholars have attempted to root the responses to HIV and AIDS within the socio-economic and political realities of those... -
Just living: genealogic, honesty and the politics of apartheid time
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Kathleen Lorne McDougall --- Department of Anthropology, South Africa“We were just living,” I was told of growing up an Afrikaner as apartheid was born. Is it possible for living at this time to be anything but political? To say “we were just living” of being an Afrikaner at... -
The Buysdorp conundrum: constructing and articulating community and identity in Soutpansberg, Limpopo Province
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Michael de Jongh --- Department of Anthropology and Archaeology,Coenraad de Buys, the great-grandson of Jean du Bois, a Huguenot immigrant from Calais, France, was by all accounts a formidable man. He left an indelible, often disruptive, mark on the historical, political and sociocultural landscape of South Africa. Coenraad... -
Bafokeng, Inc.—Power of the nation/corporation amalgam
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Inge Kriel --- Department of Anthropology and Archaeology,The concept of ‘Ethnicity, Inc.’ so thoroughly conjoins the ethnic nation with the ethnic corporation that it becomes increasingly difficult to think of one without the other. This article aims to deconstruct this relationship by demonstrating how the ambiguity between... -
Dissecting sameness: South Africa and the politics of nonracialism
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Bernard Dubbeld --- Dept of Sociology and Social Anthropology,A claim to a basic human sameness underwrote a powerful political argument, that of nonracialism, for emancipation from Apartheid. This argument asserted that difference was inseparable from inequality, and thus that advancing human sameness helped undo the work of the... -
A return to Turner: Liminalities in Afrikaner identity politics after apartheid
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Kees (C. S.) van der Waal --- Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology, South AfricaThis article explores interpretive possibilities offered by the concept of liminality in the context of identity politics in South Africa in an attempt to build on the rich and stimulating work of Victor Turner towards a comparative and contextual analysis... -
Power and Sociality of Food and Drink in Abdulrazak Gurnah's Dottie and Pilgrim's Way
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies • Authors: Anne Ajulu-Okungu --- School of Literature, Language and Media, South AfricaThrough an exploration of the relationship between food and literature, this paper submits that Abdulrazak Gurnah's novels Dottie and Pilgrim's Way offer distinctive ways of rethinking the building of relationships and negotiating difference in alien spaces. Gurnah's presentation of migrant... -
Claiming Cape Town: towards a symbolic interpretation of Khoisan activism and land claims
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Rafael Verbuyst --- African Studies Centre Leiden, The NetherlandsCurrent political negotiations in South Africa which explore the possibility of pre-1913 land claims and the recognition of Khoisan traditional authorities have spurred the growth of the “Khoisan revival”: the phenomenon of people identifying as Khoisan and asserting indigenous rights... -
An index of waste: humanitarian design, “dignified living” and the politics of infrastructure in Cape Town
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Peter Redfield --- Department of Anthropology, United States of America Steven Robins --- Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology, South AfricaThis article develops a framework for thinking about waste as an index that signals a relational position within contested, historically layered conceptions of human order. It follows two contrasting frameworks for thinking about sanitation infrastructure: a quest to redesign the... -
A New Struggle: Active Citizenship in Thembi Ngubane and the Bambanani Women’s Group’s HIV/AIDS Narratives
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies • Authors: Savannah Hall --- Department of English, United States of AmericaThis article discusses South African women’s narrative and artistic responses to the HIV/AIDS epidemic, to include Thembi Ngubane’s radio broadcast “Out of hiding, into the world: Thembi’s AIDS Diary” and the Bambanani Women’s Group’s collection Long Life … Positive HIV Stories. Produced... -
Converting Achebe’s Africa for the New Tanzanian: Things Fall Apart in Swahili Translation
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies • Authors: Meg Arenberg --- Princeton Institute of International and Regional Studies, USAGiven the centrality of Chinua Achebe’s work in the early debates surrounding language choice in African fiction and Achebe’s own claims about the necessary transformation of English in representing African reality, what happens when his most acclaimed and archetypal novel... -
Rapping with a Forked Tongue, Code-switching and the Tribalized Kenya of the end of the Twentieth Century in ‘Otongolo Tyme’ by Poxi Presha
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies • Authors: Tom Michael Mboya --- Department of Literature, Theatre and Film Studies, KenyaIn this article politics is argued to be an important driver of the practice of codeswitching in the kinds of texts — like popular music texts — that are produced for extensive circulation within the African post-colony. The argument is... -
Undervaluation of informal sector innovations: Making a case for revisiting methodology
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development • Authors: Fayaz Ahmad Sheikh --- Centre for Studies in Science Policy, IndiaThe informal economy is emerging as a new normal. It is distinctively pervasive both in the Global South and the North. Of late, scholarship in development economics has captured its knowledge component. Yet, the focus of innovation studies is exclusively... -
Singing about the dark times in the US and India: notes on situated understandings in our age of essentialisms
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Chandana Mathur --- , IrelandIn an age where essentialisms and reductionisms appear to drive the politics of hate in most parts of the world, this essay seeks to explore the insight, hope and room for manoeuvre offered by situated local knowledges. Counterposing the “white... -
Changing trends and the impact of alcohol on the HIV/AIDS epidemic in South Africa: Review
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: SAHARA-J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS • Authors: Mashiko Setshedi --- Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Suzanne M de la Monte --- Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University,The association between increased HIV infection and alcohol use has been extensively studied and is established. South Africa is among one of the sub-Saharan African countries with the highest prevalence and number of people living with HIV/AIDS in the world... -
Philoxenia — the DNA of hospitality: hype or cure?
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Peter A. Singleton --- NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences, The NetherlandsPhiloxenia is the ancient Greek custom or tradition of treating a stranger as a friend, but it goes much deeper in terms of its reality and consequences. This custom sits deep in Greek culture and mythology, where its layers of... -
Representing the Politics of Memory: Narrative Strategies in Forna’s The Devil that Danced on the Water (2002) and The Memory of Love (2010)
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies • Authors: Maryline Chepngetich Kirui --- Moi University, KenyaThis article examines how Aminatta Forna manipulates point of view to represent the politics of memory in her memoir, The Devil that Danced on the Water (2002), and her novel, The Memory of Love (2010). It proceeds from the view... -
‘Back Home in the States’: The African’s Quest for Home in Postcolonial Africa in Chains of Junkdom by Okiya Omtata Okoiti
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies • Authors: Tom Michael Mboya --- Moi University,This paper is a reading of the Kenyan psychological drama, Chains of Junkdom by Okiya Omtata Okoiti as an artistic contribution to a long-running debate on the definition of home in postcolonial Kenya. The two major positions in the debate... -
Tourism resilience in Iran: navigating sanctions, diplomacy and emerging opportunities
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Masood Khodadadi --- University of the West of Scotland, United KingdomThe re-election of Donald Trump as the 47th president of the United States in 2024 marks a significant shift in US-Iran relations, with far-reaching consequences for Iran’s tourism sector. This brief report examines the potential impact of Trump’s foreign policy,... -
Exploring the effects of historical legacies and patronage politics on human resource management in Ghana’s local government
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Africa Journal of Management • Authors: Mohammed Ibrahim --- Global Development Institute, The University of Manchester, UK Farhad Hossain --- Global Development Institute, The University of Manchester, UKThis paper examines human resource management (HRM) practices in Ghana's local government and advances a twofold argument. First, it shows that decentralization reforms introduced in the 1980s and 1990s locked the system into a path-dependent governance trajectory. This has narrowed...
